TERI chief R K Pachauri , who received the Nobel in 2007 on behalf of an international panel on climate change, has been named in an FIR lodged in New Delhi by a woman colleague who has accused him of sexual harassment.

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In the FIR, the complainant, who works at the D-G’s office in TERI, claimed that Pachauri had sexually harassed her for nearly two years since she joined the organisation in September 2013. She also alleged that Pachauri had engaged in “sexually laden conversations” with her over email and SMS.

The FIR was based on a complaint filed by the woman at the Lodhi Colony police station on February 13, and included charges under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354 D (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.

Meanwhile, some leading lawyers and activists, including Vrinda Grover and Indira Jaising, a former Additional Solicitor General, and Prashant Mehdiratta, the lawyer for the complainant against Mr Pachauri, held a press conference today to demand that his passport should have been seized by the police.

Not stopping at demanding that Pachauri’s passport be impounded, the feminist duo along with complainant’s lawyer proceeded to add an old story to the whole mix, solely for the benefit of media, so that the media can now be expected to go on a wild goose chase searching for this woman rather than focus on the present case filed against Dr Pachauri.

They also claimed that another former woman employee of TERI had sent them a letter complaining about Mr Pachauri’s behaviour with her 10 years ago when she worked there. The lawyers also circulated the letter of the woman.

The allegations made by the complainant seem to of nature that can be easily proved by electronic evidence like email and SMS, PROVIDED either Mr Pachauri’s laptop/mobile OR the complainant’s laptop/mobile are produced without any tampering:

In the FIR, the complainant, who works at the D-G’s office in TERI, claimed that Pachauri had sexually harassed her for nearly two years since she joined the organisation in September 2013. She also alleged that Pachauri had engaged in “sexually laden conversations” with her over email and SMS.

It will be interesting to see which direction this case goes in. If the feminists’ theology is to be believed, whether a woman files a case after 1 year, 2 years, or 10 years (as the letter disclosed by ‘another woman’ in press conference), they should be taken very seriously and the accused man’s freedoms be curtailed, and so on. In justice A K Ganguly’s case, the law intern who wrote a blog post after 11 months of delay, didn’t cooperate with police to record her statements, and so an FIR could not be filed. In this case, the FIR is already filed so let’s hope some fast track justice can happen, because if it goes the media trial way then there is high amount of suspicion that this could be yet another case to curtail a man’s freedom and destroy his reputation rather than secure justice.

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Ujjwal kumar turned 18 in 4 march, a neighbor girl and her mother filed a case of pocso against him, and is in jail now.He could not appear for his 1rst year computer science engineer semester exams

The FIR covers Pocso act 11/12 ; 7/8 , 354A&b , 504, 506

The girl has failed 3 times and is giving 10 th exams

I have run thru the communication exchange on social site face book , skype and whats app.It indicates the girl is possessive about Ujjawal and has been offering herself for a long time.
She has sent deliberately sent numerous pics sent to the boys- and now putting the blame on boy that he forced her for pics.

A criminal case can only be fought by you/accused. Anyone else like us can only provide guidance

You have to produce the above evidences to court… However, what I am seeing is a trend in judiciary which tries to delay bail for accused based on severity of alleged crime, so if it’s IPC 304B (dowry death): 1 year in jail is not uncommon. For allegations like rape of minor/POCSO type of things, 6 months or more is easily possible too. Now one may say that complaint prima-facie seems totally false etc, but a trend in police/judiciary has developed that if you are the accused of a complaint by woman, then that itself is probably a crime, so stay in jail for a while before bail is given.

The most important thing is whether girl was above or below 18 at times of alleged incidents. Other are good evidences too but the problem is these women and their NGOs and supporters don’t really believe in women’s agency, howsoever much they cry that they want women empowerment, and they all band together whenever there is good chance to paint a man in bad light/criminal to escape from own irresponsible behaviour, and especially when money is involved by way of settlement etc (in matrimonial cases)

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